September 2025 AI Roundup

Gemini now features Nano Banana, Google's new image editing model from Google DeepMind. It keeps people and pets looking true to life while letting you swap outfits, blend photos, apply artistic styles, and make multi-step edits—bringing your most creative ideas to life effortlessly.

Anthropic raised $13B in Series F at a $183B valuation, led by ICONIQ. Revenue soared from $1B to $5B in 8 months, serving 300K+ businesses. Claude Code hit a $500M run-rate in 3 months. The funds will fuel enterprise growth, global expansion, and safety research.

An AI stethoscope trial in 200+ UK GP clinics scanned 1.5M patients, detecting heart failure, atrial fibrillation, and valve disease in 15 seconds - with patients 2-3.5x more likely to receive diagnoses depending on the condition. This breakthrough could transform cardiac care by spotting life-threatening conditions far earlier than traditional methods.

The 5th edition of the Top 100 Gen AI Consumer Apps shows a stabilizing market with fewer newcomers. ChatGPT leads, but Google’s Gemini is gaining ground fast, especially on mobile. Grok surges dramatically, while AI app-building platforms like Lovable jump into top rankings.

OpenAI is enhancing ChatGPT to better support mental health and well-being—expanding crisis interventions, adding expert-guided parental controls for teens, and routing sensitive chats to safer reasoning models, all guided by physicians and mental health experts.

OpenAI is launching an AI Jobs Platform and expanding its free Academy with AI fluency certifications, aiming to certify 10M Americans by 2030. Partnering with major employers like Walmart, the initiative connects AI-skilled workers with companies while making training accessible to everyone, from shift workers to CEOs.

Claude can now generate and edit spreadsheets, documents, slides, and PDFs within the app using a private computer environment. Available for Max, Team, and Enterprise plans (Pro coming soon), you can upload data or describe what you need to get polished, ready-to-use files in minutes instead of hours.

A new analysis of 74K Claude.ai chats reveals university educators are rapidly adopting AI, saving 5.9 hours weekly by automating admin tasks, building custom tools, and enhancing lessons, while debate grows over AI grading. Plus, Claude’s new "Learning" style helps anyone master tough concepts step by step.

Microsoft AI introduced MAI-Voice-1, a lightning-fast speech generation model that can create a full minute of audio in under a second, available in Copilot Daily and Labs. They also launched MAI-1-preview, their first in-house foundation model being tested on LMArena, with plans to integrate it into Copilot.

Perplexity launches Comet Plus, a $5 subscription giving users premium access to trusted publishers. It introduces a new AI-age model that pays publishers for human visits, search citations, and agent actions - ensuring high-quality content thrives beyond clicks.

OpenAI launches GPT-5-Codex, a specialized coding model for Codex that can work independently for hours on complex software engineering tasks. New features include IDE extension, automated code reviews, and seamless integration across development tools , all included with ChatGPT Plus and higher plans.

ChatGPT just got smarter - QuizGPT lets you create interactive flashcards from any topic or notes, perfect for study prep, while a new "Branch in new chat" option helps you split conversations and explore ideas without losing your original thread.

Our comprehensive OpenAI analysis reveals how the company grew into a $300B AI powerhouse, with soaring revenue and billions of monthly visits. The report covers revenue trends, stock value, workforce growth, user demographics, social traffic patterns, and OpenAI’s future vision.

AIPRM attended TEDAI Vienna 2025 on September 24-26, Europe’s only TED conference on AI, where 1,000+ elite decision-makers from 60+ countries and top minds from OpenAI, DeepMind, Microsoft, IBM, and AWS gathered to shape the future of artificial intelligence.